Quick NCAA hockey tournament note. Minnesota is getting blown out against Minnesota Duluth right now. 4-0 Duluth after 2. Considering Minnesota was widely considered the most talented team in the country going into the season, you have to think the weakness of Big Ten hockey is hurting them playing Duluth out of the fairly strong NCHC. It's unfortunate that Michigan hockey got thrown into such a small, weak league. The CCHA and WCHA split was much, much better.

Seriously. Look, I'll support the softball team and I do watch them when they're in the NCAA tournament, but the weekly updates about "Megan" and "Emily" mean nothing to me. Full names are much appreciated.

I've seen plenty of high-profile, underage football players out in Ann Arbor bars over the past few years. They all just let them in without ID, that's just how it works. You don't get MIP's in bars, you get them out on the street. That said, one really isn't a big deal. I doubt he misses a game.

I feel like the plaintiff will not have a lot of legal ground to stand on? Maybe an MGoLawyer can chime in for clarity on property laws when renting a hotel room. I just don't see many significant punishments being handed down once a fair estimate for the damages is drawn up and paid for. We'll see though, the locals aren't too friendly to anything UM at the moment up there which could influence things.

I'm of the opinion that picking them to win makes no sense, even though they're the best team. You have some other absolutely great teams out there (Virginia, Duke, Wisconsin, Nova) that have a very decent shot at winning, and if you pick the winner that isn't Kentucky correctly you'll almost be assured of a great finish in your bracket pool. Obviously if you pick another team to win and Kentucky wins, you won't do well, but neither will most of the people that pick Kentucky to win. If you pick Kentucky to win and they don't win, you definitely lose. If you pick Kentucky to win and they win, you only really assure yourself of a top 50% finish in your pool, which usually doesn't pay off.

Well there's a buyer for every seller if they actually were *going* for above face value and not just being marketed above face value. If there's people out there that want to take their kids to this show badly enough that they'll pay above face for a ticket, how is that "out of hand"?

Scalping should absolutely be legal. Outlawing it just creates this black market anyways, and who is to regulate what kind of transaction the owner of a ticket and an individual willing and able to buy the ticket should make? Nobody's holdings you down and forcing the money out of your wallet when you buy above face value.

They can't compete with the scope and funding that top state schools have for research. It's very difficult for a school as small as Northwestern to place well in international academic rankings. It's a better undergraduate teaching institution than it is a research institution.

So ZBT actually lost their national charter a little over a year ago and Sig doesn't have a charter. ZBT went by OZ (old zbt) for a semester or so and then this year they basically all just joined TKE and took over their chapter.